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Home School Life Journal ........... painting by Katie Bergenholtz

"Let us strive to make each moment beautiful."

Saint Francis DeSales

Picture Study: "Waterlillies" by Monet

We looked at Monet's various waterlily pictures today. They noticed the reflections of the trees right away. I also had a picture of one waterlily close up and you could see that at that vantage the waterlilies just looked like splotches of color. We took this aspect of impressionistic painting for our next art project. I took pictures of flowers and other nature scenes and converted them to "cartoon" mode with my photo editing program and this rendered the photo to areas of various colors. This helped the kids see how an impressionistic painter can look at a natural object and convert it to splotches of color. Some chose outlines of the pictures to color in and others did theirs freehand.